Month: September 2021

Palestine

The resistance continues: Prisoners announce new steps of struggle as two more Freedom Tunnel heroes seized

September 12, 2021 Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
After humiliating the Zionist regime by liberating themselves from the high-security Gilboa prison, four members of the Freedom Brigade were seized by occupation forces. For five days, they saw Palestine as free people – and […]
In the U.S.

Crowd cheers removal of racist monument in Richmond, Va.

September 10, 2021 Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
After 131 years of lording it over Richmond, Va., and much of the country, the towering statue of slavery-defending Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has finally been removed from his perch, to the cheers of […]
Events

Eyewitness Hurricane Ida: Capitalist Climate Crisis, Peoples Emergency, Sept. 12

September 9, 2021 Struggle - La Lucha
Sunday, September 12, 2021 Online Event https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rw6fZv1rRp2pUNcKnXuycA Webinar discussion & film showing Eyewitness Hurricane Ida: Capitalist climate crisis, Peoples Emergency – Fighting back Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rw6fZv1rRp2pUNcKnXuycA Hear eyewitnesses from LA & NOLA See film “Trouble […]
Political Prisoners

50 years since Attica Rebellion: We salute ‘prisoners’ Paris Commune’

September 9, 2021 Sharon Black
Including a special interview with Tom Soto, Prisoners Solidarity Committee observer.  On Sept. 9, 1971, approximately 1,500 prisoners in Cell Block D seized the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York, after submitting a 27-point […]
Around the world

No end in sight to U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan

September 9, 2021 Scott Scheffer
On Aug. 26, a suicide bomb was detonated at the airport in Kabul amid the chaos of the U.S. troop withdrawal. Two hundred people were killed, including 13 U.S. soldiers. Reporters paid tribute to the […]
Around the world

Rwanda’s military is the French proxy on African soil

September 9, 2021 Vijay Prashad
On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August […]
Palestine

Liberation through the Freedom Tunnel: Stand with Palestinian Prisoners’ Uprising – Take Action!

September 9, 2021 Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Six Palestinians jailed by the Israeli occupation liberated themselves through a tunnel dug beneath Gilboa prison in the early morning hours of Monday, 6 September. The six liberated prisoners – Mahmoud Abdullah Ardah, Mohammed Qasim Ardah, Ayham […]
Oppressed genders

We won’t go back! Texas & Supreme Court attack on women must be defeated

September 8, 2021 Women In Struggle – Mujeres En Lucha
Statement from Women In Struggle / Mujeres En Lucha and the Socialist Unity Party  Texas Senate Bill 8, which took effect Sept. 1, bans abortion after six weeks, before many women are even aware that […]
Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, the people’s struggle continues

September 8, 2021 Berta Joubert-Ceci
While the dictatorship of the Fiscal Control Board (“la Junta”) imposed by the U.S. Congress and its lackeys in the local government do everything to destroy Puerto Rico as a nation and sink us into […]
Labor and strikes

Never forget the Hamlet fire: Capitalist greed killed 25 workers

September 8, 2021 Stephen Millies
Twenty-five workers were killed on Sept. 3, 1991, when a fire broke out at the Imperial Foods chicken plant in Hamlet, N.C. Workers choked to death from heavy black smoke after a deep-fat fryer ignited. […]